2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the Southeast Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Communication Sciences is the 47th most popular major in the country with 23,558 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. In , communication sciences graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $47,092 and had an average of $37,532 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southeast region, there were 5,329 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,956 and $34,910 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 communication sciences graduates with average earnings and debt of $35,020 and $16,931 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in communication sciences. That schools that top this list have a program in communication sciences in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region associate degree communication sciences students.

Top 5 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Communication Sciences in the Southeast Region

1

Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

Top 5% overall quality in Southeast

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Southern Adventist University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. This small school is located in Collegedale, Tennessee, and it awarded 5 associates’s communication sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read more about Communication Sciences at Southern Adventist

2

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Copiah-Lincoln Community College. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Wesson, Mississippi, this small public school awarded 5 degrees to qualified associates’s communication sciences students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Communication Sciences at Copiah-Lincoln Community College

3

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Mississippi Community College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. EMCC is a small public school situated in Scooba, Mississippi. It awarded 3 associates’s communication sciences degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Communication Sciences at EMCC

4

Coahoma Community College
Clarksdale, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Coahoma Community College. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Clarksdale, Mississippi, this small public school handed out 0 degrees to qualified associates’s communication sciences students in 2021-2022.

Read more about Communication Sciences at Coahoma Community College

4

Oakwood University
Huntsville, Alabama

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakwood University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Communication Sciences Major in the Southeast Region list. Oakwood is located in Huntsville, Alabama and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 associates’s communication sciences degrees to qualified students.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.

Read more about Communication Sciences at Oakwood University

Notes and References

References

• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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